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Fabric for Carpet Linings.

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UNITED STATES-y PATENT .JOFFIcE.

DAVID UNT, JR., oF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

FABRl-c FOR sPEcIFrcATIoN .forming part of'n'eaes 'Patent'Narmsamnatedcule, reso.

Application filed May Silr 1880. (No model.)

To allwhom it may concern: V-

Be it known that I, DAVID HUNT,.J r.,of Boston, -in the county of Suffolk and State'of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements'- in Fabrics for 0arpet- ,Linings, of which the following is a specic'a- My invention relates to -that classuoffabrics which may be called composite,? and which xo are composed of straw, cotton, moss, jute, or

other fibrous material, and paper, or similar material, arranged in different ways, for the purpose of making a cheap, elastic, and dura-` ble padding with which to underlay carpets I5 and other parts of upholstery.

I am aware that these materials have-been used in a variety of ways together for the production of such fabrics,- the nearest approachto my fabric being, so far as I am aware, one

zo constructed of a layer of cotton battinglaid and confined between two surfaces or' layersof paper made on'its outer 'surfaces continuous-and smooth, and one constructed of two or more layers of slashed paper; but there is a wide difference between these and between all other related fabrics and my improved fab' rie, as will be seen from the.following description, taken in connection with the drawings, in which- Figure l represents', in elevation and per-v spective, one fabric embodying one part of my invention. Fig. -2 represents' a fabric, in elevation and perspective, also embodying the irst part of my invention, aswell as-another A is a strip or web of paper or similar mai terial, which is crimped into folds B B and B'B', soasto form open plaits or pockets, in the process of formingl which four `bends or 4o angles are made, alternate plaits-or pockets being on the upper s ide and alternate' plaits or pockets being on the under side of the sheet, and so formed that when the crimping has been doe andgthe' fabric iattened and fast- ,'45 cned the long sides of the iiattened plaits or pockets B B- and B B' shall nearly meet each other, but not quite, leaving narrow breaks or openingsH H and H' H'.'

S S are strips of tape or paper pasted or 5o gummed transversely over the plaits en one or both sides to hold the fabric securely in form.a This is anueconomicalrway of fastening the plaits; but another is shown at D D in Fig. 2, which consists of stitching or quilting the'plaits through and through with threads, and which may be :used instead of the paper strips or tapes. vWhen this fabric is so made -Without filling -in the plaits, the' paper, paste- Aboard, or other material forming the groundlwork should be substantial, and thicker than when the fabric'is filled, as Shown in Fig. 2.

The 4fillings C C may be of cotton batting, straw, moss, jute, or other fibrous material,

Vtaken in strips or smallI flattened rolls, and

-may be as long as the fabric is wide, and are placedin the open pockets between the crimps,

on one side of the fabric only, as I prefer to make them, leaving the alternate open pock.-

ets, the openings of which are on the opposite side of the fabric, unfilled. When the filling has been so placed the crimps are pressed down into a flattened shape, as shown in Fig.

2, and the fabric is qiiiltedor Stitched through and through, or fastened by pasted strips or tapes at proper intervals, as at D l) or SS.4

As I do the sewing in a gang sewinginachine with a properly-adjusted feed, the pressing down of the crilnps into shape is done at the same time that the fabric is fed alougtoy the needles.

- The crimping and filling may also' he -done by machinery, and thefabric can be made very rapidly and very cheaply.

'The objects sought by these. improvements are to make acheap fabric, one that is durablethat is, that will admitof long use, handling for cleansing, @tc-and at the s ame time, and more particularly, one that will 'recewe and hold dust in itself and yet be readily 'cleansed of that dust whendesired.

1 It will readily be seen that these objects are accomplished in my fabrics-fthe first bythe strengthened by the quilting D-D or the strips openpoekets, pressing and fastening the same one composite fabric, substantially s s, so that it'wiu admin rally-amount or handling without breaking and without disturbing the'brous material held 'inV it; and the third object is attained by'means of the peculiar structure of my fabric, which, when used fora carpet-lining, may be placed as rep resented in Fig. 2, wit-h the openings H H into the empty pockets upward, these-openings being 'comparatively' near together. Wherever dust Works through the carpet it accumulates through the openings in the pockets and is kept from the fibrous material C, so that when `the lining is taken up for cleansing the dust can be readily shaken and beaten out from `the pockets andthe fabric immediately laid again without impairment by the operation; and it is evident that where no filling is used either side of the fabric may be placed uppermost with the same advantages as to cleaning.

The object ot' the filling is to make a softer andmore yielding padding where these qnali'l ties may be desired, or where thickness warmth are sought.

I claim as new and of my invention- 1. 'lhe described processof making a fabric by crimping paper or similar material into and together with adhesive strips or .tapes into as and for the purposes set forth. g

assassin .i l nl r In ajlcarpet-lining or similar fa ric, ase-` resof strips or flattened rolls of fibrous ma# terial, C C, a. series of folds or crimps of paper or. similar material,1BB,partially or wholly inclosing said strips, and la series of =plaits or pocketsB B', and openings H H, fastenedA and .held together, substantially 'as set forth.

3. As an article of mauufacture,-a fabric constructed of paper or similar material, crimped into open pockets or plaits, fastened and held 4o with strips or layers of fibrous material laid in one series, and with the other series left unfilled and open, the whole so arranged and fastened or quilted together as to offer openings bctweel) the contiguous partially or wholly inclos'ed strips of fibrous material,sub

stantially as shown and described. v

.DAYID' HUNT, JR.

Witnesses:

FRANK L.` WELLS, .Crus E; SILLowAY. fr 

